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Prince Charles today raised
serious doubts over proposals to build new, conventional coal fired power
stations like one currently being considered by the government at Kingsnorth in
Kent.
Posted by bex — 12 February 2008 at 11:09am
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Jubilant climbers on top of the chimney at Kingsnorth power station in October
I've been so busy with the launch of EfficienCity (our blueprint for a climate-friendly town) that I haven't had a chance to update you on all the goings on in our coal campaign since we delivered our alternative energy speech at the government / industry shindig last Wednesday.
On Friday morning, listeners of Radio 4's Today programme heard a withering attack on the proposed new coal plant at Kingsnorth from top Nasa scientist (and the world's most
eminent climate scientist) James Hansen. The plans for the UK's first new coal plant in 30 years were, he said, a "terrible idea" which “will destroy the efforts of
millions of citizens to reduce their carbon emissions”.
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Plans for the UK’s first coal power station in a generation are a “terrible idea”, said the world’s most eminent climate scientist this morning.
Posted by jossc — 6 February 2008 at 5:42pm
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Following the disclosure last week that power-generating company Eon has been negotiating behind the scenes to get the government's backing to build the UK's first new coal-fired power station for 30 years, Greenpeace's lawyers have written to the energy minister, John Hutton, to insist that the government hold a public inquiry.
Posted by bex — 6 February 2008 at 9:33am
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Coal UK: cancelled due to climate change
This morning, energy minister Malcolm Wicks made his way to Lord's Cricket ground in London to deliver the opening speech for the coal industry's annual shindig.
He was expecting, we assume, to evangelise on the glorious future of coal in the UK, to the rapt and thunderous applause of his chums in the industry.
He probably wasn't expecting to find two metre fences blocking four of the entrances to the industry-government love-in, complete with climate change campaigners chained to the barricades.
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Home of cricket blockaded to halt coal conference
Climate change campaigners today attempted to shut down the home of cricket and halt the annual UK coal conference due to be attended by Gordon Brown's government.
Posted by bex — 31 January 2008 at 8:50pm
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One email, four words and six minutes: that’s how long it took for the government to reverse its energy policy and trash our chances of meeting our climate change targets.
We’ve got our mitts on some government documents which show how a single angry email from E.on destroyed a central pillar of the government’s energy policy in just a few minutes.
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Posted by bex — 3 January 2008 at 3:50pm
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E.ON is arguing for its new coal plant on the basis that it will include carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology. So, is CCS is a silver bullet? Or is it just another false solution, touted by an industry desperately trying to stay relevant in a carbon constrained world?
CCS is a means of separating out carbon dioxide when burning fossil
fuels, and then dumping it - underground, or else at or under the sea bed.
CCS isn't commercially viable; there are no commercially operating CCS plants in the world. And for all the industry's obfuscation, the new plant at Kingsnorth won't be able to capture and store carbon; it will
just be ready to incorporate CCS should the technology ever become
viable in the future.
